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Allison Kaptur
Personal blog · akaptur.com/blogprogramming
Allison Kaptur's personal blog at akaptur.com covers programming. Since 2015, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Love Your Bugs”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Allison Kaptur's blog for posts on effective learning and growth mindset, and for technical pieces such as one on the CPython peephole optimizer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
In early October I gave a keynote at Python Brasil in Belo Horizonte. Here is an aspirational and lightly edited transcript of the talk. There is …
Most-linked posts?
- Love Your Bugs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-11-13
- Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-25
- Getting Started with Python Internals[2014]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-28
What Hacker News says?
Also has a great list of other blogs, most of which are my favorites now too. https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/09/some-of-my-favorite-blogs/ here's a copy+pastable list: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ http://danluu.com/ https://aphyr.com/ http://www.elidedbranches.com/ http://composition.al/blog/2015/03/31/what-isnt-a-key-value-... https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2016/03/29/0 http://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.h…
Comment linking /blog/2014/08/03/getting-started-with-python-internals/
on “Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?”Submitted Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers as a story · 231 points
HN discussionThis concept from Carol Dweck's research is core to Allison Kaptur's keynote at the New Zealand Python User Group in 2015 [0]. It's a good talk regarding the importance of having a growth mindset. If you prefer a written version, it's available on Allison Kaptur's website[1]. Previous discussion [2]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcc6JEhDSpo [1]: http://akaptur.com/blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strate...…
Comment linking /blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strategies-for-programmers/
on “Kids Praised for Being Smart Are More Likely to Cheat”Submitted Love Your Bugs as a story · 123 points
HN discussionThat's the fault of a poor education process and not that of education or even testing for that matter. This was posted on HN the other day and it is certainly something I had to overcome as I transitioned from being told I was smart to almost failing out of college. http://akaptur.com/blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strate... I think we need more methods for teaching (I wish I had Kahn Academy when growing up!).…
Comment linking /blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strategies-for-programmers/
on “Study says standardized testing is overwhelming nation’s public schools”Submitted Introduction to the Python Interpreter, Part 4: It's Dynamic as a story · 98 points
HN discussionPython has a peephole optimizer: https://akaptur.com/blog/2014/08/02/the-cpython-peephole-opt...
Comment linking /blog/2014/08/02/the-cpython-peephole-optimizer-and-you/
on “Nominal for Storing, Structural for Manipulating”Submitted Love Your Bugs as a story · 14 points
HN discussionAlso -- these two are mostly technical, advanced: Jessica McKellar: http://web.mit.edu/jesstess/www/ Allison Kaptur: http://akaptur.com/blog/archives/ This one is mostly about teaching and learning: Django girls (Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka): http://blog.djangogirls.org/
Comment linking /blog/archives/
on “Ask HN: Inspiring female programming blogs?”Submitted Of Syntax Warnings and Symbol Tables as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Python Puzzle (2013) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to the Python Interpreter as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Python Internals[2014] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Love Your Bugs (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Category: python-internals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python puzzle solution (Hacker School 2013) as a story · 1 points
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